Private universities have no “right” to public funds

Private educational institutions have gone the direction of the dodo – toward extinction. There may be a few colleges left that refuse government subsidies and grants (Hillsdale is one) but, for the most part, the great independent colleges planted at and before the founding of this nation are no longer bastions of higher learning.

Over the last century, especially the last 60 years, government grants have supplied the lion’s share of curriculum expansion and research funding

They have been undermined and, frankly, overtaken, by the heavy-hand of progressive “educators,” taught to revere Marxist government while shunning classical disciplines.

The legacy of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, established to train generations of preachers and teachers, has been replaced by secular studies that eschew these colleges’ Christian roots. Individual bequests and endowments that reflected the institutions’ policies were, at one time, the funding standard for construction, curriculum development, and research projects. Over the last century, especially the last 60 years, government grants have supplied the lion’s share of curriculum expansion and research funding.

Institutions, whether medical, cultural, or educational, that have become reliant on federal funding to cover multiple operations, have lost the basic understanding that all grants come with strings attached. And federal grants are (or used to be) the most stringent. The difference between then and now, is what kinds of fiduciary parameters are set for recipients.

Formerly working as a grant writer for educational programs, application was avoided to any government agency for a number of reasons: 

1. The high percentage of grant funds allocated to administration (33-35%); 
2. Limitations applied that blocked addressing real program needs; 
3. Requiring certain political/cultural content that deviated from relevant program goals (i.e. promoting climate change, diversity aka discrimination, acceptance and encouragement of socially aberrant behavior, etc.).

The result would have been that any program receiving government funding would be subject to the requirements set by the funding agency, in which case the purpose of the program could be subverted to suit the granting agency’s agenda.

Now progressive, anti-semitic, white privilege teaching institutions are throwing tantrums

With the new Trump administration, dialogues are flipping from the increasing government mandated “wokeness” back to common sense culture. This is why the now progressive, anti-semitic, white privilege teaching institutions are throwing tantrums—they’re not interested in following enforced directives of a funding agency that disagrees with their program philosophies. Nor do they have to do so, that is, if they simply don’t accept the money.

Reality check: take the offered cash and jump through the provided hoops. That’s the way it’s always worked. It’s just that Harvard, Maine’s governor, and others believe they should be exempt from taking the medicine after pressuring subordinates to swallow their prescription with a smile.

Harvard faculty are willing to go to court under the misapprehension that they have an inordinate right to government cash. They do not. No private enterprise is entitled to government funding. Despite learning institutes hopping on the bandwagon of signing up for 501(c)(3) status, they are hardly nonprofit organizations, particularly with Harvard that boasts a $50 BILLION endowment that’s collecting interest. Nonprofit? Not really.

Administrations change, and so does oversight of grant money the same way private foundations fluctuate in their guidelines depending on board membership that is reorganized from time to time.

The other issue is whether government should be subsidizing private institutions at all, particularly education. In the eyes of Thomas Jefferson, which our legal researcher Toddy Littman pointed out, education and arts had no place under federal oversight, and especially the provision of funds when there is outstanding debt. 

Hundreds of billions of dollars that were funnelled into aiding and abetting foreign nationals to invade the United States 

So Jefferson stated in his second inaugural address. It can’t be overemphasized that the federal government is fueling an already staggering national debt of $36 TRILLION that’s continued to grow by a TRILLION dollars every 100 days.

Along the same lines of President Jefferson’s assessment, it should additionally be said that programs designed to fundamentally contradict the letter of the Law of the Land (that’s the U.S. Constitution, and only the Constitution, for those who try to add statutory law under that heading) are outside of the funding directives of government.

To this end, it must be recognized that all the hundreds of billions of dollars that were funnelled into aiding and abetting foreign nationals to invade the United States were (and are, if still being channeled in that direction) not only unconstitutional but treasonous. At which point, members of the previous administration are liable to be indicted and tried, not just for sedition, but as traitors. That includes all government officials who directed cash to so-called charities that made huge profits through their operations to fund invasions and launder money back to those officials and politicians. This is where DOGE has been instrumental in uncovering the fraud that underlies the devious efforts to dismantle our constitutional republic, while attempting to hide their illegal conduct.

In this regard, institutions that contravene the rationale for the creation of this nation, as plainly stated in the Declaration of Independence (which was codified in the Constitution), have no claim on any government funds. Those institutions, be they educational, research, or cultural, have made it their mission to undermine the governmental mechanism established by our founders. What can and should be funded by government is clearly stated in Article I Section 8, and nowhere within the confines of the Constitution are education, arts, or even sciences designated for financial patronage. Copyright and patent registration, yes. Underwriting these endeavors with government funds, no.

The time has come to gut all the inefficient, inappropriate funding for extra-and pseudo-governmental agencies and institutions that have drained the coffers for decades

The time has come to gut all the inefficient, inappropriate funding for extra-and pseudo-governmental agencies and institutions that have drained the coffers for decades. The practice has undercut the true purpose of maintaining a free, respectful, and prosperous social order with an agenda to “communize” what was originally a straight forward manner of operation.

Greed for money that powered expanding control centered in the national and state capitals has sidelined our creed as stated in the preamble of the Constitution: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

The “People” does not include illegal infiltrators of the country, nor does it cover the citizens of foreign nations on their own soil. This country was established to prosper and promote the citizenry of the United States, and they, and only they, have access to the due process prescribed by the Constitution, of which all state constitutions must be in agreement. Nor can an institution or organization siphon funds, provided by the American taxpayer, to promote a foreign agent or political entity such as the nonexistent Palestine.

In summary, if a private institution expects to retain its autonomy, then it may not accept funding from an agency, foundation, or government that, by law, can and will designate how the funds are to be applied. If they want to go and follow their own drummer, then they must secure legal funding that supports their agenda, and this administration, and therefore the People who voted it into office, refuse to be party to their deviant, anti-American, and unconstitutional teachings and political activism.